Book launch and roundtable discussion related to the exhibition: Common Affairs

The Common Affairs exhibition opened in January 2018 in Ludwig Museum. The exhibition presented the results of a four-year international program (CAPP – Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme) aiming to involve artists in collaborative art practices and to support projects involving various communities that seek effective solutions to a particular social problem.
 

The artists, selected by open-call, and their partners carried out seven projects at several locations in Budapest and in the countryside in 2017. The artists worked together with various communities, including pupils from Pécs and Budapest, inhabitants of small villages, agricultural entrepreneurs, Romanies living in disadvantaged areas and also with mentally challenged people, as well as people with visual impairments.

The publication presents the programmes implemented during the four-year CAPP project, and also deals with relevant museum pedagogical and other museum-related aspects of the projects. Zsolt Szijártó, Culture Researcher, had been following the implementation of the projects, and evaluated the works via devising professional criteria.

The richly illustrated book presents in detail the seven projects (Dragon Lee, Arboretum, To Be Continued?, We Will See!, Artists in Classrooms, Floating House, and „I Like Being a Farmer and I Would Like to Stay One”) and the sincere and touching moments of the cooperating artists and communities.

The book has been published in English and Hungarian.

DATE: 11 September 2018. 5.30 – 7.00 PM

VENUE: Ludwig Museum, 1st floor Auditorium

PROGRAM

• 5.30 PM: Greetings
• 5.45 PM Roundtable discussion
  Participants: Zsolt Szijártó, Culture Researcher, Dávid Utcai, Visual Artist, Andrea Simon and Krisztina Szipőcs Curators of the Exhibition
  Moderator: Kinga German, Art Historian

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